Submitted on Friday 9th March 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop the closure of Bournemouth MIdwife led Unit
There are plans to close the midwife led unit at Bournemouth Hospital. Poole has inadequate provision for the extra women it will need to accommodate.
Despite promises to give women choice this government are consistently standing by and watching Chief Executives of NHS trusts undermine midwife led units and then close them.
Midwife led units have equal if not better safety statistics than consultant led units. It is also cheaper for women to deliver at midwife led units. So why are these units closing?
(See the Birth Place study by Brocklehurst P. et al 2011 BMJ343:bmj.d7400.)
We as women, need to ask the government to stop the NHS targeting women's services like this and to provide a safe comfortable surrounding for women to birth in.
The Government promised women choice. (Maternity Matters, DOH 2007)
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
Petition Id:
31115
Petition title:
STOP CLOSURE OF BOURNEMOUTH MIDWIFE LED UNIT
3.142.12.170 Fri, 17 May 2024 07:02:09 +0100
